Application Details:
| Version: | Steam |
| License: | Retail |
| URL: | http://masseffect.bioware.com/ |
| Votes: | 5 |
| Latest Rating: | Silver |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 3.10 |
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What works
Everything (graphics, music, sound, videos, game completion)
What does not
Nothing found yet
Workarounds
What was not tested
Everything was tested
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
NOTE : make sure that if you create a new prefix for steam under newer 64 bit OSes that you create a 32 bit wrapper. mint installs 64 bit wine from the repo and creates 64 bit wrappers by default and I have started to notice these 64 bit wrappers can majorly effect how some games run. Instead of using winetricks to create your steam prefix, do it manually making sure you set WINEARCH=win32. This will create a 32 bit wrapper and fix various issues I've found with the 64 bit. Reason for gold rather than platinum is that I had to force a 32 bit wrapper as stated above and also install with winetricks dinput8 to fix a slow framerate issue. Intel i5 GTX 570
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 18.04 "Bionic" amd64 (+variants like Kubuntu) | Jun 14 2018 | 3.10 | Yes | Yes | No | Silver | Carlos Rodriguez | |
| Show | Manjaro Linux | Jan 14 2018 | 3.0-rc5 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | Odisej | |
| Show | Arch Linux | Jun 14 2017 | 2.10 | Yes | Yes | Gold | Liam | ||
| Show | Gentoo Linux | Aug 27 2016 | 1.9.17 | N/A | Yes | Gold | aililoh | ||
| Show | Arch Linux x86_64 | Jun 24 2016 | 1.9.12 | Yes | Yes | Silver | vorpalblade |
| Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
| 6971 | Mouse "escapes" window or is confined to an area in the full screen program | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 16822 | Mass Effect: Mouse input does not work (almost completely) | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 40898 | Mass Effect (Steam) has no sounds with native OpenAL (except for cutscenes) | NEW | View | |
| 54352 | Performance tanks when looking at occluded part of the level | UNCONFIRMED | View |
Get audio to work
Edit "Documents/BioWare/Mass Effect/Config/BIOEngine.ini"
Add the following under the "[ISACTAudio.ISACTAudioDevice]" section:
DeviceName=Generic Software
UseEffectsProcessing=False
Ensure "Hardware Audio" is turned off in Sound settings in game
To get the MEUITM installer to work
A custom MassEffectModder.exe must be suppliedThis is seemingly due to it using functions not fully implemented in wine/mono
A hacky, usable version can be found here: https://github.com/DougTy/Mass...
Occasional "rendering exception" error while playing MEIUTM requires your game's binary be large address aware.
MassEffect.exe can be patched using this tool: https://www.techpowerup.com/fo...
Make a backup before patching!
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by sairuk on Thursday September 1st 2016, 6:49
Add the following lines to the section labelled [ISACTAudio.ISACTAudioDevice]
DeviceName=Generic Software
UseEffectsProcessing=False
Disabling hardware audio